Buckboard-wagon



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I. JOUBERT 8:; S. W. YATTAW.

S -BUU KBOARD WAGON- Patented Feb. 28,1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISRAEL JOUBERT AND SYDNEY W. YATTAW, OF PORT HENRY, NEW YORK.

BUCKBOARD-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,332, dated February 28, 1882.

Application filed August 6, 1881.

To all whom it may concern: l

Be it known that we, ISRAEL J OUBERT and SYDNEY W. YATTAW, of Port Henry, in the county of Essex and State of New York, have invented a. .new and useful Improvement in Backboard-Wagons; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figurel is a perspective view of our im proved buckboard and stifl'ening-frame, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same with a wagonbody secured thereto.

Our invention relates to improvements in buckboard-wagons and itconsists of a wagonbuckboard provided with a stiffening-frame secured to the middle of the buckboard and adapted to support a wagon-body, and having its slats concaved or curved in an opposite or reverse direction to the slats of the buckboard, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, a represents a buckboard of the usual construction composed of a series of longitudinal, parallel, and

wagon-spring, in the usual manner.

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in an opposite direction to the curved springslats b of the backboard, and secured at their ends to the transverse bars Z, .to which the bottom of a wagon-body is secured. The downwardly-curved spring-slats k are inserted in the interstices between the upwardly-curved spring-slats b, and are secured at their middles to the under face of the middle transverse bar, d, of the buckboard to hold the stiffening-frame in position on the buckboard, with the cross-bars l l of the stiftening-frame resting on the slats of the backboard.

Any weight applied to the wagon-body will cause the curve of the buckboard to flatten and the wheels of the wagon and axles to be moved apart, and the transverse bars of the stiffenin gframe to slide along the slats of the backboard. The construction materially strengthens and stiffcns the spring of the buekboard and renders it'more durable, and the wagon-body can be elevated as desired by shortening the stiff"- ening-frame.

We claim as our invention The combination, with a wagonbuckboard, a, of the stiffening-frame h, having the parallel downwardly-curved slats k inserted in the openings between the slats of the buckboard, and secured thereto, and provided with the end transverse bars, I, adapted to supporta wagonbody, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

ISRAEL JOUBERT. SYDNEY WESTREN YATTAW.

Witnesses:

BENJAMIN F. BEERs, JAMES RYAN. 

